Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week . |
| 2 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 3 | If there are any area display teams willing to perform at the Annual Reunion on Saturday 19th November to be held at Warwick Park School , please contact at , , |
| 4 | So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ? |
| 5 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 6 | Television is at least one escape and just like all the other trivial pastimes , should allow the unemployed to participate at a reduced rate . |
| 7 | ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’ |
| 8 | Where firms maximise profits in uncompetitive conditions the effect is that consumers are denied goods which they would have been willing to buy at the competitive market price . |
| 9 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 10 | Last night 's meeting , involving banking advisers for both GM and Jaguar , was to examine whether GM was prepared to bid at the inflated share price . |
| 11 | It is easy to sneer at the credulous pilgrims . |
| 12 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |
| 13 | During Biblical times , some ancients thought moonlight was dangerous for one 's eyes but a more modern belief was that if you took a child , suffering from whooping cough , outside to look at the new moon , then it would effect a cure . |
| 14 | It is particularly instructive to look at the stratigraphical record of our kindred science of archaeology . |
| 15 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 16 | The ravens , uninvited guests , must be content to scramble at the outer edges , snapping up any morsels the vultures accidentally drop . |
| 17 | A couple of his men , apparently under orders from Epitot , were content to follow at a respectful distance as she and Karelius went for a stroll in the city . |
| 18 | It is odd — one of the anomalies of science — that it is possible to look at a single entity as if it were either one thing or another , apparently quite different thing . |
| 19 | Other competitors include Audi 's new 80 2.8E V6 and the forthcoming new Volkswagen Passat VR6 , likely to sell at a similar price . |
| 20 | Granted better luck he should get his head back in front and is likely to start at a reasonable price in this company . |
| 21 | It is clearly imperative to arrive at a correct diagnosis of the origins of involuntary unemployment . |
| 22 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 23 | First , that non-climatic influences ( including the distribution of natural resources ) are likely to dominate at the regional level , as evidenced by the 10–200 fold variation in national per capital GNP values within 10° latitude bands . |
| 24 | To understand the processes occurring at high Rayleigh number , it is helpful to look at the mean temperature distribution across the layer . |
| 25 | Those thinking about asking for funding might find it useful to look at the SOED booklet referred to above . |
| 26 | Norman had mentioned that they needed to fill up with petrol and must be sure to call at the all-night garage after they left the Clarence . |
| 27 | Individuals believe that they are able to perform at the desired level ( effort performance outcome ) . |
| 28 | However , the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside . |
| 29 | 2.3 If the Landlord is unable to obtain at a reasonable cost any of the materials referred to in the Building Documents the Landlord may [ ( subject to notifying promptly the Surveyors of its intention to do so ) ] in carrying out the Works substitute for them alternative materials as nearly as may be of the same quality |
| 30 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |